Since all the rules have been removed, I thought it best to put one in place.
I want all of you to follow it, think before you type your thoughts, think of the reaction it will cause good bad, whatever.
The Rule is.
Be Excellent to one another.
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Since all the rules have been removed, I thought it best to put one in place.
I want all of you to follow it, think before you type your thoughts, think of the reaction it will cause good bad, whatever.
The Rule is.
Be Excellent to one another.
That is a good rule to follow even offline and in everyday life :goodjob:
I LIKE IT. :)
It is also my personal rule!
Well you were the inspiration for it, I hadnt heard that phrase in a long time and it stuck to me really good when you brought it up the other day.
:D
really well
*Falls out of her chair, completely stunned* W...what did you say? Y... y... you're one of the few that actually know that!Quote:
Originally posted by wasup
really well
A friend once said this to help me remember the correct grammatical uses of 'good' and 'well':
You fuck well and it feels good.
Got it? Remember that simple sentance and you'll never mix them up again. :D
I have "well" and "good" sorted out to the point that it songs wrong to me if they're used incorrectly. I have trouble with "lay" and "lie" though.
If you really want to talk about obscure grammar mistakes: how many people here are aware that the ordinary use of the word "hopefully" is incorrect? I tell people to correct me whenever I use it. One day my terribly, terrible habit will be fixed.
BAD: "Hopefully I will have a lucid dream tonight."
GOOD: "I hope that I will have a lucid dream tonight."
Pointing out grammar mistakes for the intellectual betterment of mankind is a truly excellent thing to do. :)
I hopefully waited for my lucid dream...???Quote:
BAD: \"Hopefully I will have a lucid dream tonight.\"
GOOD: \"I hope that I will have a lucid dream tonight.\" [/b]
Also, what's up with whom and who??? It's commonly used like, "To whom it may concern" Maybe it means... like... uhhhhh.... less specific than who, who is more narrowed down or something... I have no idea what I'm talking about...
Also, Lost Soul, I don't know how you can not know that.
And lastly (hehe) what is a cliche!!!!?????????
Wasup, there are SO many people who say stuff like "I did good on that test" and it drives me crazy! I was just surprised when you corrected Seri because I thought I was the only one who was bothered by that. :-P I never say anything though. People look at me like I'm a retard for correcting their grammar and since, like, 99% of Americans say 'good' in place of 'well', I just shut my mouth and let them do their thing.
Cliche:
Function: noun
Etymology: French, literally, printer's stereotype, from past participle of clicher to stereotype, of imitative origin
Date: 1892
1 : a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it
2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation
3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace
An example of some cliches would be: "Fit as a fiddle", "Slept like a log", "Follow your heart", and so on. Did that answer your question? :)
So do I. I write in Word and it will usually catch my grammatical errors, although I don't always trust it. It will tell me that a sentance like "I am going to the store" should be "I is going to the store". O_o Needless to say, I shut off the grammar checking while I write. I never know when to use 'lay' and when to use 'lie' when talking about someone, say, taking a nap or something.Quote:
Originally posted by Silver Sphere
I have trouble with \"lay\" and \"lie\" though.
She lay down near the fire, her eyes heavy with weariness.
She lie down near the fire, her eyes heavy with weariness.
Which is correct? They both sound correct to me. In cases like this, my grammar checking will try and tell me that it should be 'laid' or some such thing and I know that's incorrect.
for that example it should be lay (im pretty darn sure)
:D Yes, I believe you've got it: "hopefully" means you're doing something in a hopeful manner, no more no less.Quote:
Originally posted by wasup
I hopefully waited for my lucid dream...???
God I hate English!!!
I have just spent the last 20 minutes checking my sons English homework!!
mmmk...
I've seen all these grammatical posts, and I gotta say, "who/whom" is definitely the strangest rule. I don't have any more trouble with it than I do any other grammar rule, but it's the only one that I'm not really able to come up with my my own explanation or rule of thumb. The only half-assed explanation I can come up with is that "whom" seems to appear in sentences concerning ownership: "to whom it may concern.." "for whom?" etc...
The one that pisses me off the most though is when people actually DO try to be proper, but misplace it. Example: "This is between you and I." See, the reason this is so sickening sounding is that people are trying too hard to be proper...and in the end they sound even dumber than someone that chooses to ignore these rules altogether. My rule of thumb for this is to just remove the other noun involved (he, she, you, etc.) the use of "me" or "I" will be the same without another noun. Example: "It's for her and I." just remove the other person/noun involved: "It's for I." See how dumb this sounds? Hands down, the most frequently- and easily-caught mistake for me...and the most terrible-sounding... :barf:
I wonder y he abandoned (hehe) the rules. Hopefully Ice didn't learn of my plot to over throw him in that bloody battle thing. :roll:
I only speak two languages english and bad english, live with it :finger:
Where did that come from.
and ill pass on your offer.
the 1 that where you said FuCk you with your fingers.
admire your knowlege in dreaming serintha
and that you get attacked by shawdowy figures.
...the hell?
Yeah... so, anyway...
You're a New Yawka so you're forgiven. :D Also, I thought of another rule for all of us to follow. Read and consider carefully, ladies and gents:Quote:
Originally posted by Serinanth
I only speak two languages english and bad english, live with it :finger:
Turn the light on before you walk down the stairs.
Come on, everybody knows that rule. What kind of nitwit would walk down the stairs without turning on the light?Quote:
Originally posted by A Lost Soul
Turn the light on before you walk down the stairs.
A good rule.
And for the discussion about english grammar: I hate it! I used to be quite good at it (could just "hear" if it was right") but now I get most of it wrong. And I have never understood when to use "whom". Tacka vet jag svenska!
This nitwit. :cry:Quote:
Originally posted by Silver Sphere+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Silver Sphere)</div>Quote:
<!--QuoteBegin-A Lost Soul
Come on, everybody knows that rule. What kind of nitwit would walk down the stairs without turning on the light?[/b]Quote:
Turn the light on before you walk down the stairs.
Are your armpits beginning to toughen up yet?
I can remember having sore pits for about a week!
Nope... they're still sore, just like my palms (from the crutchrest thingies), and my forearms.
I am so scared that after all of this is done and my foot finally decides it's ok again, I'll come out of it looking like Popeye... Or my right leg will be bigger than my left leg. :shock:
:lol:
Depends. My left leg atrophied a little. But it only took a few months of normal walking to get it back to normal. Didn't need therapy or anything!Quote:
Originally posted by A Lost Soul
Or my right leg will be bigger than my left leg. :shock:
Thsi nitwit dont turn on the lights either :D
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Dämel! Dummkopf!!
=þ
Your made of rubber anyway, aren't you Seri? Just like a ferret. Only you smell WAAAAAY better.
:rolllaugh: haha!!!
*bows*
Tiggers are wonderfull things, there tops are made outa da rubbah there bottoms are made outa da springs, their bouncytroucybouncytroucyfunfunfunfunFUN. Ohhhhhh the wonderfull thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!! HOOHooHOO HOO!
Yeah I do bounce. Fell 25 feet on my back, I think the branches I broke on the way down slowed my decent though.
Lets see what else did I do...
Jumped my bike, came down, and well the bike gave up, the front forks bent fowards and I keft going, Face planted, skidded across the ground on my face and right side, and flipped over, only to see my bike had bounced up in the air and was spinning right at me. Took my water bottle and washed the large areas of now missing skin grabbed my bike and rode it home, looked like some kind of hybrid chopper bike lol.
Uhh Got Zapped with 240VAC, when my arm started working again, I measured the resistance of the spots where I touched. It was a 20 amp circuit, so I had the potential to get 20 amps, but taking into account the resistance of myself at that moment I figured I had taken about .43 amps.
.25 is supposed to really mess up your world if not kill you.
Got zapped byt 10,000VAC at VERY low current, so that wasnt as bad as the 240 zap.
Been engulfed by fire a couple times, I will find the pic, of a flame wrapped around me I will edit and throw that in hehe
umm
yeah I bounce. hehe
:shock: I just got this...nevermind.
I can crash into things and hurt myself perfectly well even with the lights on.
<--------- English Major
Regarding Who, Whom, Lay, Lie, Sit, and sat.
Hehe, Any how, Who and whom, Who is a relative pronoun, And it is in the subjunctive case, therefore is used at the subject of the sentence.
In plain english, Who, takes the place of the subject.
Whom, is in the objective case, In other words, Direct Objects, indirect objects, object compliments, They all would be whom.
I.E
Who is going to play the guitar? Would be correct because who is the subject.
To whom it may concern, Whom is the reciever of this comment, therefore is a direct object. Soooooo in this case it would be correct(btw I know this not a good sentence to use. Just go with me on this one tho :wink: )
Lay vs. Lie
Lie is something that the subject of the sentence would do. It would be the subjects action.
Lay, would be something you would do to an object.
i.e.
Rtex needs to go lie down. - correct, Because the subject, Rtex, is lying down.
I will lay this rose on the coffin.(wow, what a morbid statement :| ) Anyhoo, In this case, Rtex, or Me, Layed something, the rose, and so it would lay.
Its basicly the same with Sit and sat, Sit is something You or the subject does, and sat is something you do to something, Or somethign that gets an action done to it.
Hope this cleared up a few things!!!!!
danke for the lesson. :wink:
I wonder what ever happend to ICE. I mean i see all these improvments but no post from him.
If we have to point the blame im sure we can all come to the assumption it was Paper and Lost Souls fualt. The only reason i say Lost Soul is because the whole get over it thing.
J/K its not you fualt Lost Soul
Be at peace brother Shawndow. What is done is done, and is now history. Maybe he will come back some day!
you're right shawndow. it probably is mostly ly fault. I think I pissed him off, but I didn't mean to at all. I freaked out over a few changes on the board, I guess he thought I was mad, when really I wasn't MAD at all, just freaked. maybe he thought he was doing a bad job as admin or something. he's a good one I think. I hope he doesn\'t hate me... :(
How do you know he is not among us now... disguesed as a noob... he could be one of those people who just came... dun dun duuuunnn 8)
LOL
poor wasup and his crazy talk.
its all crazy talk
I now shift the blame to seeker
I bet he finally Dreamscaped and flew into Ice Dawgs dream. After giving him sevral a nightmares, threatend Ice never to come back again huh,...huh just admit it. Im watching you
lol disquised as a noob, thats a good 1 :rolllaugh:
Oooops :oops:
I've been found out.
But I had help, someone on the grassy knoll!
I broke in on Icedawg in the form of a giant Incubus. And you know how scary that can be, especially for a dude!
Scared him so bad, he vowed he would never LD again :)
I am also responsible for all of the other bad things that have happened:
Dangling chad (2000 presidential election)
Stock market slump
The bbCritical error we had here a month ago
Stale *muffins*!
I should be punished! * kneeling with hands handcuffed behind back*
Who would like to go first?
:shock:
:holyshit:Quote:
Originally posted by Paperdoll EP
:shock:
U bastard :oops: :sniper:Quote:
Originally posted by Seeker
Stale *muffins*!
hello everyone! i'm the new n00bie.
I would just like to add the second part of the rule, which is...
...and party on dudes!
:yumdumdoodledum: :yumdumdoodledum: Welcome to our forum! :yumdumdoodledum: :yumdumdoodledum:
Night Rider was a cool show!
Look around, Post, tell us about your experiences and goals!
Thankyou Seeker, will do.
While you are talking about grammar and spelling, I guess it safe for me to point out that 'irony' is spelled 'irony' and not 'ironey', which apparently is how some people spell it over here :)
think about the ironey...
[/shawndow]
think about the ironey
Now that is ironeic.
woohoooo!!!! Bill and Ted's excelent adventure rules!!!! hells yeah!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
:D
Hey its simple but it Works =)
Simple works for me!! Guess that says something about me..... (simpleton?)Quote:
Originally posted by Serinanth
:D
Hey its simple but it Works =)
Sometimes the most power lies in simplicity
A simple mechanism is more reliable than a complex one... And simple ideas much easier to hold true to, focus on a simple thing is also more attainable.
When you have a system that becomes so complex it sometimes just gives up, it experiences a SMEF
Spontaneous
Massive
Existance
Failure.
Oh yeah, the first rule of engineering KISSQuote:
Originally posted by Serinanth
Sometimes the most power lies in simplicity
A simple mechanism is more reliable than a complex one... And simple ideas much easier to hold true to, focus on a simple thing is also more attainable.
When you have a system that becomes so complex it sometimes just gives up, it experiences a SMEF
Spontaneous
Massive
Existance
Failure.
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
How about
Keep
It
Stupidly
Simple?
It works for all kinds of things, except of course when you're trying to make a new cupboard, and the instructions are all in Japanese. :P
Err... What? Do you mean me?Quote:
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he means Connecticut, the U.S. state.
lmao, ok. :P
*feels stupid*
Just saying it again =)
I want all of you to follow it, think before you type your thoughts, think of the reaction it will cause good bad, whatever.
The Rule is.
Be Excellent to one another.
A few things :
SMEF
<When you have a system that becomes so complex it sometimes just gives up, it experiences a SMEF
Spontaneous
Massive
Existance
Failure.>
Yeah my computer dose that all the time :P
Irony
Anyone Watch Black Adder ?
- Baldric, do you know what irony is?
-It's just like goldy and bronzey only its made of iron.
The Rule
Got to agree, it's a good one. I'm pretty sure that when The master Kung (Kung Fuzi, Kung futzu, confucis... that old chinese guy who knew his stuff, you know the one) was asked by one of his students to sum up his teachings in one word he said, Consideration.
Well, not the english word consideration, but a chinese aproximation there of, with implied meaning to apropriate contexts.
simple enough?
in all things CONSIDERATION
yeh sounds bout right.........like the irony thing....;)
I watched all the black adder episodes.
Arrow lands in Baldrick's crotch.
Baldrick: Oh, that's useful. I just put my willy there.
Blackadder: So you can call it your lucky willy.
Baldrick: Yes, and I'll show it to my grandchildren.
Blackadder: I think Grandchildren may be out of the question.
Has anyone really noticed that the first like......TWO posts were on topic?
Then everyone starting talking about grammar.......i find that just a little weird.
BUT HEY! dont let me burst your grammatical bubble :D